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full of a similar tenderness. The musical cues — including a completely un-ironic use of Dave Matthews’ “Crash Into Me” and Stephen Sondheim as the artist of choice for the students’ theater auditions — signal as much; despite how wrenching some of... Read more

who have been largely forgotten, such as Julien Duvivier. People are now rediscovering “Panique” and “La Fête à Henriette.” Stephen Sondheim is a big admirer of Duvivier. Overall, I think that people are seeing French cinema in a new light. I think... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.Other Entertainment N... Read more

on songs with Bono of U2, said in a statement that he looked forward to discussing "life, art and rock 'n' roll" with Smith.
Previous MacDowell gatherings have paired Martin Scorsese with Lin -Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Pau... Read more

the focus that it might have.”
After the current tour wraps up next month, she will delve back into her “Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim” show, with several dates planned in New York.
She will then renew her collaboration with singer-songwriter... Read more

to Joe’s Pub this week with her show “Story Songs #2” from Thursday through Sunday. She’ll perform songs by Joni Mitchell, Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown and T Bone Burnett.
Not only is Buckley one of my favorite actresses, but she can also... Read more

an extract from the “West Side Story” number “Maria” that gives Miranda’s song its title and runs hauntingly through it. Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s estate both authorized its use, and in Miranda’s song the name Maria is never... Read more

adding she was especially glad to have her parents Mary Hooker and Jessie Hooker, of Wilkes-Barre, see her perform at the Stephen Sondheim Theater. “It was so cathartic to hug them at the end of the show.”
Jessie Lee Hooker, center, was excited... Read more

Tim McCarthy has been followed for years. Both men, with blood from history on their hands, are featured as characters in a Stephen Sondheim musical.
The men who committed mass murder in Charleston, Newtown and Orlando became household names for... Read more

Tim McCarthy has been followed for years. Both men, with blood from history on their hands, are featured as characters in a Stephen Sondheim musical.
The men who committed mass murder in Charleston, Newtown and Orlando became household names for... Read more

favorite song from West Side Story.”
To use the hook, Miranda said he had to secure permission from the song’s creators, Stephen Sondheim and the estate of Leonard Bernstein. Of course, everyone remembers that Moreno played Anita in the 1961 film... Read more

being that he had broken barriers. But there had already been other openly gay winners, among them Elton John and Stephen Sondheim. The reaction was as predictable as it was inevitable, although new to Smith: mass ridicule on social... Read more

Friedman’s production captures the (broken) heart and (damaged) soul of this elusive, melancholy, funny, and challenging Stephen Sondheim musical about as well as anyone is likely to do. Based on a staging by Friedman in London that was widely... Read more

“Into the Woods” is a dark musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It’s a musical that never gets old. The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre puts on stellar production, running through Nov. 4.
The plot of... Read more

of Puerto Rico’s hurricane-related destruction — largely because too few realize that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. — got Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s “America” looping through my brain.
“West Side Story” has always been my favorite... Read more

a rare collision of two worlds -- between a high-profile GM of an NBA team and an experimental theater company whose roots have ties to Houston's punk rock scene.
Morey has invested in several plays and musicals and is a fan of Stephen S... Read more

Newman. I really identify with his style. That’s basically the only reason why. I’d say right now that my idol in music is Stephen Sondheim, mostly because I studied “Sweeney Todd” last week for my [Music Theater Workshop] class. But I’m also so in... Read more

and heighten the experience and, I hope, elucidate the issues."Songs featured include a heart-rending interpretation of Stephen Sondheim's 'With So Little To Be Sure Of', a rare and unique cover of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'There's Me' (from the... Read more

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Chicago Tribune

Cabaret singer Denise Tomasello carries on with showof American songbook mainstays by Harold Arlen, the Gershwins, Cole Porter and

of American songbook mainstays by Harold Arlen, the Gershwins, Cole Porter and such contemporary composers Peter Allen and Stephen Sondheim) with pizzazz, crafting a playfully comfortable mood. Her voice is solid and firm, her personality... Read more

second half of the program consisted of vocal music including Bach’s Cantata No. 65 and musical theater excerpts by Stephen Sondheim, Gilbert and Sullivan, Leonard Bernstein, and Marvin Hamlisch. There were two particularly notable and... Read more

eccentric...
Cornerstone Theatre Company, in its second season, has given itself a lofty goal in tackling "Company," the Stephen Sondheim musical ode to relationships. And there are times when the young cast members — some are still in college —... Read more

roles in all of musical theater. Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone. With a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and music by Jule Styne — each of them working at the top of his game. Through Oct. 8. Lyric Stage Company... Read more

classic 1937 MGM comedy that starred Constance Bennett and Cary Grant as the Kirbys and Roland Young as Topper. (A young Stephen Sondheim wrote for the CBS show and found the pace grueling.)
Jeffreys and Sterling later starred on the 1958 ABC... Read more

even realizing it!” Feinstein recalls.
Other guests who have gathered by the piano over the years include Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim and Tony Bennett, to name a few. “When I was in my formative years in California, I’d go to Hollywood... Read more

“Finn’s best” are not insubstantial. I’d argue that about the only downside you could ever conceive from the glories of Stephen Sondheim is that Finn has been obliged to walk in his shadow. Even though he belongs by Sondheim’s side.
I had the... Read more

into a slight lead over Nixon. [ + - ]
1957: The play "West Side Story," with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. The production ran for 732 performances before touring and... Read more

into a slight lead over Nixon. [ + - ]
1957: The play "West Side Story," with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. The production ran for 732 performances before touring and... Read more

roles in all of musical theater. Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone. With a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and music by Jule Styne — each of them working at the top of his game. Through Oct. 8. Lyric Stage Company... Read more

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Canberra Times

Assassins review: Hayes Theatre hits bullseye with a troubling musicalLynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore. Some of its characters mightn't ring many b

Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore. Some of its characters mightn't ring many bells for Australians, but there's no denying Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1990 musical Assassins has an electrifying topicality to it, even in an era when those... Read more

Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore. Some of its characters mightn't ring many bells for Australians, but there's no denying Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1990 musical Assassins has an electrifying topicality to it, even in an era when those... Read more